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Abbreviations

Cryosphere :

All forms of terrestrial snow and ice.

Newtonian viscous body :

A body whose stress at each point is linearly proportional to its strain rate at that point.

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Barry, R.G. (2009). Cryosphere Models . In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30440-3_110

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